Electric Lit’s Best Poetry Collections of 2023
Gabrielle Bates, Sam Sax, Sally Wen Mao, and Edgar Kunz highlight a year of celebrated poetry collections

Gabrielle Bates, Sam Sax, Sally Wen Mao, and Edgar Kunz highlight a year of celebrated poetry collections
Sarah Blakley-Cartwright recommends stories about the shifting allegiances and power dynamics of a threesome
"Beyond Carthage" from THE END OF THE WORLD IS A CUL DE SAC by Louise Kennedy, recommended by Caoilinn Hughes
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SupportMaru Ayase’s novel "The Forest Brims Over" explores the gendered exploitation of being an artist's muse
Jiordan Castle's memoir-in-verse travels back in time to adolescence to the arrest that altered her family forever
Lee Matthew Goldberg recommends crime stories that subvert the expectations of the genre
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"Beyond Carthage" from THE END OF THE WORLD IS A CUL DE SAC by Louise Kennedy, recommended by Caoilinn Hughes
Two poems by Christopher Ankney
An excerpt from ALICE SADIE CELINE by Sarah Blakley-Cartwright, recommended by Sanaë Lemoine